Present Continuous: questions

 

To ask questions in Present Continuous, we use ‘am/is/are’ + subject + ‘-ing’ form of the verb:

 

Singular	Plural
Am I working? Are you working? Is he/she/it working?	Are we working? Are you working? Are they working?

• Is it raining today?
• Are you leaving?
• Is he driving? 

 

Note: We don’t say ‘Yes, I’m’ to answer positive questions, we say ‘Yes, I am.’ We can say ‘No, I’m not’ or ‘No, I am not’ to answer negative questions:

 

• Are you studying now?
• Yes, I am (No, I’m not).

 

• Is Ben playing golf?
• Yes, he is (No, he isn’t).

 

• Are your friends staying at a hotel?
• Yes, they are (No, they aren’t).  

 

To ask questions with the question words Where, What, When, Who, How, and Why, we put the question word before ‘am/is/are’:

• What are you doing?
• When is he coming?
• Why is she crying?